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Not that this is a surprise, but Quinn’s mom loves him
Friday, Oct 17, 2014 - Posted by Rich Miller * Gov. Quinn’s mom has been making the media rounds lately. NBC 5 interviewed her earlier this week, and the Sun-Times got access to her yesterday…
Rauner’s right to laugh that one off. Of course Quinn’s mom is gonna say nice things about her son and harsh things about his opponent. But the “so be it” line is not exactly nice. Full video of the interview is here. * The paper also posted a photo of the governor as a young boy…  Caption?
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- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 10:56 am:
“I still have my Communion money.”
- OneMan - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 10:57 am:
Many thought it was strange that Pat would line up his GI Joe’s on Sunday and have press conferences…
- OneMan - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 10:57 am:
No tie, full head of hair…
Not buying it.
- Leprechaun - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 10:59 am:
Only 1 chin what happened with the other 2 ?
- Team Sleep - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 11:01 am:
“Bobby Boucher - Gator Bowl MVP!
He loves his mama!”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 11:01 am:
===“We gotta deal with facts. and we got to hit those hard. And if his mom is mad at me for trying to get those facts out, you know, so be it.”===
Bruce. Rauner.
This is also Bruce Rauner;
===However, he said it wasn’t an admission of wrongdoing but: “because we’re nice folks. We treat people well,”===
Rauner decided to take a shot at a 90+ year old woman.
===”And if his mom is mad at me for trying to get those facts out, you know, so be it.”===
Feel better Bruce? Feel warm taking a shot at a woman over 90?
“Mrs. Quinn supports her son. I never met her, but I’ve hear she’s a great lady, and I wish her nothing but the best.”
Nope.
Rauner, “And if his mom is mad at me for trying to get those facts out, you know, so be it.”
Pathetic.
- admin - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 11:02 am:
Vote for me. I’m not the guy who kills grannies!
- walker - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 11:03 am:
Rauner should have just said: “God Bless her. All moms should love their sons like she does.”
Oh well. Blew another easy opportunity.
Caption: “Same as he ever was.”
- MrJM (@MisterJayEm) - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 11:04 am:
“Let’s make the Will of the People the Law of the Playground.”
– MrJM
- Wordslinger - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 11:07 am:
Mr. Nice Guy couldn’t say something polite and gracious about Mrs. Quinn?
So be it.
- Anonymous - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 11:07 am:
At least he didn’t say he’d bury her.
- Federalist - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 11:07 am:
I was cute when I was little also (or at least my mom thought so).
- 47th Ward - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 11:07 am:
When I grow up I’m going to be a lawyer. And I’m going to create the Citizens Utility Board to keep the utilities from gouging senior citizens. And then I’m going to help people appeal their property taxes and I’m going to pass an amendment to shrink the Illinois House. After that I’m going to work for Chicago’s first black mayor and then I’m going to be state treasurer and then I’ll run for the U.S. Senate. Next I’ll be governor of Illinois someday. And after that I’ll run for President…
- GOPGal - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 11:09 am:
Rauner: “Y’know, the thing about Quinn, he’s got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes.”
- Jake From Elwood - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 11:10 am:
“If only Harold Washington had seen this picture…”
- Ron Burgundy - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 11:12 am:
We need a wefuhwendum in the Wand of Wincoln!
- Demoralized - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 11:13 am:
Whether Rauner is right or wrong doesn’t matter. He looked like a jerk in his response about Quinn’s mother.
I would have said: “I hope my mom would say nice things about me too”, smile, and be done with it.
- Hank Z - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 11:15 am:
He looks weird without a purple tie.
- Greg - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 11:15 am:
Has Gov. Quinn ever been with any women other than his mommy???
- Ron Burgundy - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 11:16 am:
On Rauner’s comments, yeah he overdid it. As others said he should have kept it light with something like “I would hope his own Mother is supporting him!” etc. and perhaps a light-hearted dig that she might want to send Pat to his room for the awful things he says about me.
- Siriusly - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 11:16 am:
He looks like a clumsy but very well meaning boy.
- Wordslinger - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 11:20 am:
Greg, you’re sick in the head.
- js - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 11:20 am:
SO cute when they’re young. Why do they have to grow up?
- Anonymous - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 11:20 am:
- He started a neighborhood newspaper at age 9. -
That’s nothing.
Bruce was busting out lemonade stands left and right at that age. When folks figured out it wasn’t lemonade he’d pocket the cash and unload the liabilities on some unsuspecting kindergartners.
He was born to lead.
- Valerie F. Leonard - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 11:25 am:
This interview is very effective for the Quinn campaign. They reached several segments in one fell swoop–women, mothers and Catholics. Rauner didn’t help himself by engaging her through the media. He actually comes off as very callous. This interview is but another passage in the narrative that paints Rauner as a cold, unfeeling person who disrespects women of all ages. I agree with the other commenters that Rauner should have kept it light, or better yet, not even commented.
- Steve - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 11:26 am:
Future lawyer, future politician, future con man.
- West Side the Best Side - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 11:31 am:
At least I got my picture taken before I ran into Brucie the playground bully.
- pingu - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 11:31 am:
Soy boy.
- Anonymous - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 11:31 am:
[This commenter has been banned for life.]
- Ducky LaMoore - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 11:37 am:
Reading Bruce’s words have me channeling Ann Richards….
Poor Bruce… he can’t help it…… He was born with a silver foot in ‘is mouth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgeQ_y7LMRI
- Steve - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 11:38 am:
Was considered for Eddie Haskell’s role in Leave It To Beaver.
- A guy... - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 11:43 am:
The cub who would become CUB.
- A guy... - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 11:45 am:
I know and like Mrs. Q. She’s a very spirited lady. Not sure why she’s being interviewed in a serious Gov. race.
She’s tough enough to handle “So be it”.
- so... - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 11:47 am:
==Reading Bruce’s words have me channeling Ann Richards….
Poor Bruce… he can’t help it…… He was born with a silver foot in ‘is mouth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgeQ_y7LMRI==
Remember who won that race…
- Anonymous - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 11:55 am:
winner talent contest(ted mack)
- Ducky LaMoore - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 11:56 am:
@so…
Still a good line. Dukakis was a bad candidate. And a good candidate didn’t have the best shot. H.W. was popular and a was a good president.
so… what’s your point?
- Anonymous - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 11:56 am:
- Not sure why she’s being interviewed in a serious Gov. race. -
Words fail me, are you really not sure?
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 11:57 am:
===She’s tough enough to handle “So be it”.===
You stay classy, - A Guy… -.
Wow.
- Omay - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 11:57 am:
OK Lil Soyboy, you’re done with pictures. Now get out there with that push mower. The weeds are thigh high.
- Ken_in_Aurora - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 12:03 pm:
Did anyone ask her what she thought of the nastiness directed by her little darling against Rauner? Neither candidate is taking the high road here.
- Leatherneck - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 12:04 pm:
The Illinois pension systems were also being short-funded at the time this photo was taken.
- 36th Warder - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 12:05 pm:
Hey what happen to the hair that is supposed to be standing up top. Alfalfa
- Responsa - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 12:06 pm:
Mrs. Quinn love her son. Mrs. Rauner loves her husband. In other earthshaking news……..
- Rhino Slider - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 12:07 pm:
So Bruce Rauner doesn’t have a mom?
- A guy... - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 12:13 pm:
Wilbur, I know her. She’s a feisty tough lady. You are taking it a ton more personally than she is. Book it.
Stay daft.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 12:16 pm:
===I know her.===
Rauner never said HE did.
I guess you and Bruce view women differently…”lady”…than other people…
So not showing her respect is ok?
Got it.
- Stones - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 12:17 pm:
PQ has been just as harsh as BR with all do respect to Mrs. Quinn.
To the caption contest…
“Do I have to wear that purple tie again, Mom?”
- Responsa - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 12:19 pm:
“When these baby teeth fell out and I put them under my pillow for the tooth fairy the going rate was twenty five cents per. Say, what’s it up to now?”
- DuPage Dave - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 12:25 pm:
“This is the moment when I realized I was put on earth to solve the pension problem.”
- Carhart Representative - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 12:26 pm:
So, when is the debate between Mrs. Rauner and Mama Quinn?
- Give Me A Break - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 12:28 pm:
Hey, hang on to this, I might need it for a Blue Book.
- A guy... - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 12:31 pm:
===Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 12:16 pm:
===I know her.===
Rauner never said HE did.
I guess you and Bruce view women differently…”lady”…than other people…
So not showing her respect is ok?
Got it.====
He’s not respecting or disrespecting her. This is not a commentary on women at all despite your best (and very poor) efforts to make it that way. Every family of a candidate is sensitive to how their loved one is torn up in elections. Maybe one of the ladies in the Rauner family could read all your snipe, or Mr. Sanguinetti could read your blather and comment on how you’ve been treating the ladies.
Mrs. Quinn is not a naif. She gets the process. Interviewing someone’s mom? Kinda dumb on it’s face. How do you do much else but laugh it off.
Pat’s mom wants Bruce to tone it down. She’s probably dragging Pat by one ear telling him the same thing. I’d love to give her 2 minutes with you. lol
- Anonymous - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 12:36 pm:
==So, when is the debate between Mrs. Rauner and Mama Quinn?==
What debate? They would agree on every policy.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 12:37 pm:
- A Guy… -,
“Mrs. Quinn loves her son. I hear she’s a great lady, and I wish her all the best.”
Anything else, speaks to how petty a man worth millions is, how thin his skin is, and how he sees women, but we already know how Rauner sees women who work for him, right?
Exactly right.
- Responsa - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 12:40 pm:
==Maybe one of the ladies in the Rauner family could read all your snipe, or Mr. Sanguinetti could read your blather and comment on how you’ve been treating the ladies.==
Thank you. That needed to be said. Now that it has been, can we all please move on and have some fun with the caption contest about Pat’s first grade picture?
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 12:42 pm:
===Mr. Sanguinetti could read your blather and comment on how you’ve been treating the ladies.===
Slip and Sue is in the arena.
Refute my points, but ya can’t.
Simple as that.
- Rich Miller - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 12:45 pm:
===can we all please move on and have some fun with the caption contest about Pat’s first grade picture?===
Yes, please.
- Demoralized - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 12:46 pm:
@A guy:
Don’t you think the proper response would have been: “I hope my mom would say nice things about me” and then just smile and move on?
You could indulge me this one time by agreeing to something that we should all be able to agree to: that Rauner’s response was a bit jerky.
- Angel's Sword - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 12:47 pm:
Future President Pat Quinn, 2024-2030, as a young boy. The Quinn-Mama Quinn ticket won a surprising 50 state sweep in a series of events that Mama Quinn traced back to her running mate’s upbringing.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 12:47 pm:
“I still have all my lawn mowing money”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 12:49 pm:
“Patrick, take off that hat for the picture! Don’t you know wearing hats leads to baldness…”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 12:51 pm:
“I was a set of ears, and living in between them…”
- A guy... - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 12:54 pm:
Caption:
My mama’s the best mama there is.
Demo, Rich said move on. I’ll indulge you another time.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 12:56 pm:
“To Miss Crabtree,
From,
Alfalfa”
- A Jack - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 12:58 pm:
BR secret thoughts: “I can’t wait to get that woman in one of my nursing homes.”
- Tommydanger - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 1:00 pm:
“And I propose reducing the size of the 3rd grade by 1/3 and limiting the number of homework assignments teachers can give to no more than 1 per week.”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 1:01 pm:
Where’s the puppy, Buster Brown?
- Responsa - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 1:07 pm:
Mom promised me we could fill up the Buick and pack some sandwiches and go see that big river on the west side of the state.
- How Ironic - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 1:09 pm:
You know…I think there are too many representatives on student council. I ought to do something about that…
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 1:09 pm:
“If I could only have one food for the rest of my life? That’s easy-Pez. Cherry-flavored Pez. No question about it.”
- downstate commissioner - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 1:10 pm:
“What, me worry?”
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 1:12 pm:
“I knew if I could just get Winnie Cooper to not see me as a friend, I would have a chance…”
- Team Sleep - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 1:14 pm:
All joking aside - I did get a chance to meet Mrs. Quinn during the 2011 Inauguration. She was very sweet and reminded me of my grandma.
- A Jack - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 1:14 pm:
Ok caption: “Future governor looks in in envy at Brucie Rauner’s gold plated sandbox, while little Brucie drinks imported Kool-aid from his every-man’s sippie cup”
- Responsa - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 1:14 pm:
I found an old leather briefcase in the alley behind our house. It smells a little musty but I think I’m going to keep it and name it Betsy. You never know when you might want to carry stuff around in a briefcase.
- uptown progressive - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 1:18 pm:
On my honor, I will do my best. To do my duty to God and my Country . . .
- Ginhouse Tommy - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 1:23 pm:
In that picture he looks like Alfalfa from “Our gang or the little rascals” from way back when. Kinda makes you want to ask where Spanky is. Quinn is probably asking him mom How could you? He might even have a bag over his head today.
- Carl Nyberg - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 1:28 pm:
My mom sat next to Quinn’s mom at a Nader event at Fenwick in ‘95 or ‘96. My mom really liked Quinn’s mom.
Four years ago my mom volunteered to make calls for Quinn. Her health kept her from doing much more.
This cycle Mom’s fired up to get her absentee ballot. I expect she’s gonna vote for Pat Quinn b/c of Quinn’s mom.
- Cheswick - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 1:49 pm:
“Someday I’ll have my own field of dandelions.” — Young Quinn.
- Anonymous - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 1:50 pm:
Hey, guys, like my new vest? I think it brings out the Peter Lawford in me.
- Cheswick - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 1:51 pm:
Young Quinn, holding a press conference, tells reporters everything he knows about the Great State of Illinois.
- Anonymous - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 2:01 pm:
- Interviewing someone’s mom? Kinda dumb on it’s face. How do you do much else but laugh it off. -
Hahaha, yet your guy has paid for 2 commercials featuring his wife.
Get that plank out of your eye, dude.
- Rich Miller - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 2:03 pm:
=== 2 commercials featuring his wife.===
It’s at least 3 by now.
- A guy... - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 2:31 pm:
Anon, one is a candidate’s wife who has been part of the campaign since it started.
The other is a 93 year old mother, who has never been part of campaign communications.
Can you not see the difference? Perhaps the plank is otherwhere.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 2:37 pm:
===The other is a 93 year old mother, who has never been part of campaign communications.===
I guess that makes Quinn’s Mother a “civilian” and a snarky response to her bad form…
===one is a candidate’s wife who has been part of the campaign since it started.===
I guess that makes Diana Rauner “fair game” to question, “being part of the campaign since it started@.
I also guess Slip and Sue and her credentials are fair game, since she is literally on the ballot and trying to be a heartbeat away from running the 5th largest state in America.
So, being snarky to a civilian, and saying Diana and Slip and Sue are active, they are fair game, that is how you are reading it?
- Anonymous - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 2:59 pm:
- The other is a 93 year old mother, who has never been part of campaign communications. -
She still isn’t, last I checked the Sun-Times isn’t a part of the Governor’s campaign.
But just so we’re clear, using your wife in political ads is completely legitimate, but a newspaper interviewing the Governor’s mother is dumb.
Whatever dude, obviously you’re on a higher plane than the rest of us.
- Noper - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 3:30 pm:
That sweet, innocent Quinn boy has changed some over the years - the hair grayer, the teeth sharper…
- Jake From Elwood - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 4:01 pm:
“Mama, may I please have another helping of boiled carp and soy milk…please?”
- Jake From Elwood - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 4:05 pm:
No doubt Baby Bruce is holding a silver spoon in his baby picture.
- Arsenal - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 4:15 pm:
“The other is a 93 year old mother, who has never been part of campaign communications.”
She’s given multiple interviews to praise one candidate and condemn another. If it walks like a duck…
- A guy... - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 4:43 pm:
== Anonymous - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 2:59 pm:
- The other is a 93 year old mother, who has never been part of campaign communications. -
She still isn’t, last I checked the Sun-Times isn’t a part of the Governor’s campaign.
But just so we’re clear, using your wife in political ads is completely legitimate, but a newspaper interviewing the Governor’s mother is dumb.
Whatever dude, obviously you’re on a higher plane than the rest of us.===
NO, just you.
- A guy... - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 4:45 pm:
===Arsenal - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 4:15 pm:
“The other is a 93 year old mother, who has never been part of campaign communications.”
She’s given multiple interviews to praise one candidate and condemn another. If it walks like a duck…===
Ars, she despises politics and rued the day he go into it. Book it.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 4:56 pm:
===she despises politics and rued the day he go into it. Book it.===
This Just In;
- A Guy… - speaks for Quinn’s Mom.
I am sure she appreciates you speaking for her, lol
- Wordslinger - Friday, Oct 17, 14 @ 4:58 pm:
A Guy, you are the hardest working spokesman in the biz. When did you land Quinn’s mom as a client?
Is there anyone, or any group, you don’t represent?